Abstract

STOESSEL, Soledad  and  SCARPACCI, Martín. Disputes over Development and Territory: The Case of Yasuní-ITT during Ecuador's Citizen Revolution. Territ. [online]. 2021, n.45, pp.239-259.  Epub July 10, 2022. ISSN 0123-8418.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.8382.

The paper analyses the dispute over development and territory based on a study of a government policy known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative implemented in 2007 by the Citizen's Revolution project in Ecuador. The Initiative was abandoned in 2013, which meant that part of the ITT territory located in Yasuni National Park was to be exploited for oil. This led to the activation of a social and territorial conflict involving various environmental collectives, NGOS, indigenous communities and the government. The text reconstructs this conflict and identifies the different discourses used around the problems of development and territory. The paper is based on a theoretical perspective that combines Bob Jessop's strategic-relational approach and a spatial analysis that understands territory as a conflictive field of power. The paper concludes that the dispute over extractivism cannot be addressed without considering the processual dynamics of the capitalist accumulation and the strategies that actors use to appropriate territories.

Keywords : Development; territory; extractivism; State; socio-territorial conflict.

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